| Cat Vincent ( @ 2008-02-08 23:51:00 |
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| Current mood: | sneezy |
| Current music: | Drone Zone: Atmospheric ambient space music. Serve Best Chilled. Safe with most medications. [SomaFM] |
| Entry tags: | chem, comics, film, magic, media |
Magical semiotics and spandex
Two blogs of interest to my magical and alchemical colleagues:
The Secret Sun - blog of Christopher L Knowles, Jungian thinker and author of "Our Gods Wear Spandex", a consideration of superhero mythology/superheroes as mythology. Here's a recent piece on The Joker, the untimely death of Heath Ledger and that of the lead singer of Killing Joke - and how all that connects.
Inside the Cosmic Cube - also somewhat comic-influenced, but like Knowles exploring the symbolism of modern media - this time from a western-esoteric-alchemical angle. Here's blogger Adam Star on The Night Watch - both Rembrant and the Russian magic-war flick (but sadly not the Pratchett...). He also looks at Joker-as-alchemical-rubedo here.